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Persisting app.config variables in updates via Click once deployment

Every time a new update is released for an application with click once, the variables in the app.cofig file are destroyed <userSettings> <app.My.MySettings> <setting name="Email" serializeAs="String"> <value /> </setting> <setting name="UserName" serializeAs="String"> <value /> </setting> ...

Can a clickonce app be published on Ubuntu

Hello, C# 2008 SP1 I have built an application and this is published on windows server using clickonce. The clients go to the url and can download and run the application. The client is now changing their servers to run Ubuntu. Can a clickonce application be published on a server running Ubuntu. The version of Ubuntu is 8.10. Many th...

What alternatives are there to ClickOnce?

I've used ClickOnce a lot over the years but have run up against a lot of it's limitations. What alternatives are there for web deployment? So far the only one I've been able to turn up is ClickThrough, which is part of WiX now on the back burner. Are there any others out there that people have had success with? ...

Failed while publishing clickonce application.

I get the following error while trying to publish a wpf clickonce application. Error 1 Publish failed with the following error: Unable to cast COM object of type 'EnvDTE.DTEClass' to interface type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the in...

Is it possible to do ClickOnce Deployment with Apache?

Can I publish a winforms application using ClickOnce Deployment to an apache server? When attempting to publish to an Apache Server I get this error: Failed to connect to 'http://10.200.0.80:8081/WinSync/' with the following error: Unable to open the Web site 'http://10.200.0.80:8081/WinSync/'. To access Web sites on the l...

Creating a (ClickOnce) setup for VSTO Outlook Add-in

So I created an Outlook Add-in and used the click-once setup to deploy it. The setup runs fine when the user is administrator, but otherwise: no go. Running the setup with "run as..." and logging in as admin works, but than the add-in is installed under the admin, not the current user. The addin doesn't show up in outlook. I tried fo...

Clickonce - How to add an image to installer?

Is it possible to change the GUI of a Clickonce installer? To add a custom image for example? ...

How to Open browser window on uninstall of a clickonce app

Hello, i am deploying my app via clickonce. I would like upon uninstall of the application, the popup a custom url. Is it possible? (...and invite the user to take a pool for the reason of uninstall) ...

ClickOnce - No "Start" menu shortcut

I am publishing a .Net 3.5 SP1 WPF application through ClickOnce. By default, when the user clicks on the published link the application gets installed and a menu and shortcut are added to the client's Start/All Programs menu. How can I prevent the shortcut/menu from being created? (users need to run the application solely by clicking ...

Does ClickOnce support deployment of applications to clients behind a Proxy that requires authentication?

With all the advantages of ClickOnce, we would like to use it as the deployment mechanism for our App. However i have found this message in Microsoft Connect where it says that ClickOnce fails with proxy authentication. https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=115468&amp;wa=wsignin1.0 So does th...

Buy or Build for web deployment?

I have been evaluating the wide range of installation and web deployment solutions available for Windows applications. I will just clarify here (without too much detail, these tools have been covered in other questions) my understanding of the options: NSIS - Free tool that generates setup executables. Small binary. Specialized, som...

ClickOnce deployment for restricted users

From firsthand experience, it appears that ClickOnce only installs for the current user, and there is no option to install for all users. This is a problem because some users within the company need to use ClickOnce applications but do not have permissions to install applications (for security reasons). So far, the only solution we hav...

effect of changing click once application publish location on clients machines

ok, i have a windows forms application published using click once to "http://MyDevComputer1/DevPublishFolder/". so the deployement link is, http://MyDevComputer1/DevPublishFolder/publish.htm. The application is already deployed to close to 20 machines in the company intranet. I now have a requirement to change the publish location to a d...

Can I "transplant" a ClickOnce application from one PC to another?

My wife's old work computer has a ClickOnce-deployed app on it that she now needs on her new work computer. (It runs on her old computer fine, but her old computer doesn't run fine at all, hence the new one.) The source distribution for the app is long gone; it was hosted on the workstation of an employee who left long ago. Can the ap...

Click-Once Alternative Icon Locations

Is there any features inside click-once to push multiple shortcuts? (Such as to desktop, Startup Menu, etc) In the past I've always done that as part of the form load event of my deployed application (installation triggers the application to launch--thus I can use form load to complete the setup process). I'm wondering however if that...

How can I get something to (really) run AfterPublish using MSBuild

I need to shell out (to call svn commit on my .application file) after a ClickOnce publish. However I've not been able to find a way to hook it into my MSBuild .csproj file. The PostBuild Event is too early And calling 'start Some.exe' in PostBuild does not run in the background And using the AfterBuild Target from MSBuild is done befo...

ClickOnce Deployment Errors

I am trying to deploy a ClickOnce app. It had worked previously when the server was just sitting with .Net 2.0 installed (no SP). Recently the server had 3.5SP1 installed on it and now ClickOnce is failing with the error: Value does not fall within the expected range inside System.Deployment. Here is the information posted on the MSDN ...

Move ClickOnce repository without reinstall in client machines. Is it possible?

Hello, I have a C# application (WinForms) (ClickOnce) whose repository is installed on a server that is about to crash, so my boss asked me to move the repository, but there are around 300 client machines which have the application installed. The ClickOnce is signed with a Test Certificate. Is it possible to move the repository with...

Closing an aspx page after redirect to a clickonce application

I have code in code behind portion of my aspx page. On a button click a function gets called so that a clickonce application loads. Originally I was doing all of this in javascript. The js set the window.location to the url of my clickonce application, and close through a timeout. This worked fine until I installed the application on ano...

clickonce same publish version but assembly version different, update not happening.

Hi I have deployed a clickonce application, in my application i have 10 external dlls. Since the code inside my dll files keeps changing and it's tough to redistribute i went with clickonce deployment strategy. But i wanted to know a thing, if i make a change to one of the dll files and upgrade it's assembly version from 1.0.0.0 to 1.0.0...